Primroses in Waterhall

The bank where these primroses are blooming faces north so they are several days behind all the others, most of which are now past their best.

Not in Stanmer

This group of trees at the bottom of the garden at my cousin's farm caught my eye as the sun shone on them while the sky behind was dark.  At the left front is a holly, the lighter green tree in the middle is a dawn redwood, the evergreen at the back is a Monterrey cypress and the one on the right just coming into leaf is a tulip tree.

Stanmer church

Stanmer church and part of the village as seen from the edge of the Great Wood.

Reminder of 1987

Back in October 1987 a "hurricane" whipped through south-east England and many trees in Stanmer woods were uprooted.  To this day there are humps like this one which are where the root patterns of the trees were pulled out of the ground.  Many of them (again, like this one) still have the remains of the trunk jutting out.

Bluebells I bring you

For one reason or another, I haven't been in Stanmer woods for several weeks.  I went into the Great Wood yesterday afternoon to get out of the wind and discovered the bluebells in bloom at least a week or ten days earlier than usual.

Baseball in Brighton

Tucked away behind the rugby pitches in Waterhall are two baseball fields that have seen better days.  Now, however, the Brighton Buccaneers softball club is in the process of renovating them.  The picture above shows the work as it was a week ago while to the left is as it was a month or so back.

This is a view of the second field from behind the batter's plate - which has only recently been put in place.  Up until a week or so back there was some pretty awful chain link-type fencing which has been removed and which will presumably be replaced.  The picture below shows the pitcher's mound looking towards the batter's plate - as it was!

Too late

When we were washing up after dinner the other evening I noticed the gorgeous sky.  By the time we had finished, I had found my camera and gone outside it was very nearly too late.